Synonyms of the word scuttlebutt


SCUTTLEBUTTACCOUNT - COMMENT - GOSSIP - REPORT

scuttlebutt

  • n. (nautical, countable) A butt with a scuttle, a keg of drinking water with a hole cut in it, on board ship.
  • n. (informal, uncountable) Gossip, rumour, idle chatter.

account

  • n. (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings…
  • n. (banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.
  • n. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action…
  • n. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
  • n. (business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
  • n. A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.
  • n. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
  • n. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
  • n. An authorization to use a service.
  • n. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
  • n. Profit; advantage.
  • v. to provide explanation.
  • v. to count.

comment

  • n. A spoken remark.
  • n. (programming) A remark in source code which does not affect the behavior of the program.
  • v. (transitive) To remark.
  • v. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.
  • v. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).
  • v. (transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

gossip

  • n. Someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.
  • n. Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
  • n. A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
  • n. (obsolete) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother.
  • v. To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.
  • v. To talk idly.

report

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something).
  • v. (transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information…
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive) To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal.
  • v. (transitive) Formally to notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct…
  • v. (transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).
  • v. (intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.
  • v. (intransitive) To be accountable.
  • v. (politics, dated) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter…
  • v. To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
  • v. (obsolete) To refer.
  • v. (obsolete, rare) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
  • n. A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with…
  • n. The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
  • n. An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.

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